Source of quote from David Brainard

[jambo]

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am. (David Brainard)

I am intending to use the above quote in an upcoming article for our church and ant to be able to put a date to the diary entry it was written in. Would anyone here know where this actually appears in the treasure chest that is his Dairy and Journal?

 

[C. Matthew McMahon]

It's not by Brainard.

Here is the quote:

"Have you ever prayed a prayer like this? “Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am”? That’s the prayer I wrote in the margin of a book recently beside a quote from David Brainerd. You recall that Brainerd was a missionary to the New England Indians 250 years ago. He wrote: "Oh, that I might be a flaming fire in the service of the Lord. Here I am, Lord, send me; send me to the ends of the earth … send me from all that is called earthly comfort; send me even to death itself if it be but in Thy service and to promote Thy Kingdom.""

From John Piper, Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2005), 220.

 

[jambo]

Thanks Matthew for that response. I had thought it was David Brainard so will have to adjust what I was going to say!

 

[Taylor]

It's not by Brainard.

Here is the quote:

"Have you ever prayed a prayer like this? “Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am”? That’s the prayer I wrote in the margin of a book recently beside a quote from David Brainerd. You recall that Brainerd was a missionary to the New England Indians 250 years ago. He wrote: "Oh, that I might be a flaming fire in the service of the Lord. Here I am, Lord, send me; send me to the ends of the earth … send me from all that is called earthly comfort; send me even to death itself if it be but in Thy service and to promote Thy Kingdom.""

From John Piper, Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2005), 220.

I wondered if this were the case. “Utterly disproportionate” didn’t have the ring of American Puritan to me.